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Lance Knobel, Co-Founder of Berkeleyside, discusses...

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 21:00:00 -0800

Lance Knobel, Co-Founder of Berkeleyside, discusses what’s happening in Berkeley in 2013 and how coverage of the local news scene has grown over the past year.

Hosts Jesse Townley and Lars Skjerping discuss the past...

Thu, 15 Nov 2012 21:00:00 -0800

Hosts Jesse Townley and Lars Skjerping discuss the past week’s local Berkeley election results.

Filmmaker, Artist, and Journalist, Jonathan Riley discusses the...

Thu, 30 Aug 2012 17:20:20 -0700

Filmmaker, Artist, and Journalist, Jonathan Riley discusses the upcoming release of his documentary film, “Occupy the Bay”. Recorded live 08-16-12 at KALX 90.7 FM

Release party is: August 31, 6:00 pm

25th Street Collective

477 25th st

Oakland, CA 94612

Trailer: http://youtu.be/xvcPrS5kTjM

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Tonight on SBD - “Occupy the Bay”, a documentary film on the occupy movement in the Bay Area....

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 17:40:00 -0700

Tonight on SBD - “Occupy the Bay”, a documentary film on the occupy movement in the Bay Area.

Guest: Jonathan Riley, filmmaker/director of “Occupy the Bay”. As an journalist, artist, filmmaker and activist, Riley has been at the epicenter of social movements in Oakland.

His documentary film, “Occupy the Bay” screens tomorrow, August 17 @ 7:30pm at:

First United Methodist Church, 9 Ross Valley Dr., San Rafael

Release Party is August 31, @ 6pm at:

25th Street Collective, 477 25th St, Oakland, CA 94612

“Occupy the Bay is a not-for profit documentary video project directed by Jonathan Riley and produced by Kevin Pina/Long Memory Productions. This one-hour documentary chronicles the local incarnation of the Occupy Movement, which officially started in September 2011 on Wall St., and then spread across the country and continues today. Rather than aiming to define the scope of the entire Occupy Movement, to create a one-sentence slogan articulating its goals, or to abstractly discuss its impact on the “national conversation,” this film focuses more specifically on events in the Bay Area and their impact. From Occupy Oakland’s port shutdowns and controversial decision to embrace a “diversity of tactics,” to police brutality that has attracted attention nationally and worldwide, this movie deals with the unique factors that have made the story of the Occupy Movement in the San Francisco Bay Area what it is today.”

The trailer can be viewed here: http://youtu.be/xvcPrS5kTjM

Thursday, 08/16/2012

9:00 - 9:30 pm

KALX Berkeley 90.7 FM

streaming: http://kalx.berkeley.edu

Tonight on SBD - “Occupy the Bay”, a documentary film on the occupy movement in the Bay...

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 17:34:23 -0700

Tonight on SBD - “Occupy the Bay”, a documentary film on the occupy movement in the Bay Area.

Guest: Jonathan Riley, filmmaker/director of “Occupy the Bay”. As an journalist, artist, filmmaker and activist, Riley has been at the epicenter of social movements in Oakland.

His documentary film, “Occupy the Bay” screens tomorrow, August 17 @ 7:30pm at:

First United Methodist Church, 9 Ross Valley Dr., San Rafael

Release Party is August 31, @ 6pm at:

25th Street Collective, 477 25th St, Oakland, CA 94612

The trailer can be viewed here: http://youtu.be/xvcPrS5kTjM

Thursday, 08/16/2012

9:00 - 9:30 pm

KALX Berkeley 90.7 FM

streaming: http://kalx.berkeley.edu

Tonight on SBD - A Different Way to Occupy City Hall: Participatory Budgeting in Venezuela Guest:...

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 19:40:36 -0800

Tonight on SBD - A Different Way to Occupy City Hall: Participatory Budgeting in Venezuela

Guest: Gabriel Hetland, PhD candidate, UC Berkeley, Department of Sociology. His dissertation research focuses on participatory budgeting in Venezuela and Bolivia. Since November he has been a core member of the Community Democracy Project.

Gabriel will be speaking this weekend at Green Sundays on this topic and how it relates to the current occupy movement.

Thursday, 03/08/2012

9:00 - 9:30 pm

KALX Berkeley 90.7 FM

streaming: http://kalx.berkeley.edu

Lance Knobel, Co-Founder of Berkeleyside, discusses the growth...

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 02:30:00 -0800

Lance Knobel, Co-Founder of Berkeleyside, discusses the growth of the site over the past year, previews the Local Business Forum 2012: Startup Berkeley, and Berkeleyside’s 2012 Resolutions.

Bo Laanan of the Occupy Berkeley movement joined us on Soapbox...

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 22:00:00 -0800

Bo Laanan of the Occupy Berkeley movement joined us on Soapbox Derby to discuss the eviction of campers at Civic Center Park on December 22, 2011, as well as the future of the movement in the coming year.

Occupy Wall St. West - Cracking the Corporate Piggy Bank
Friday, January 20th, 2012
Justin Herman Plaza, San Francisco
http://www.occupywallstwest.org

Links:
http://www.occupyberkeley.org
facebook.com/occupyberkeley

Liz and Bo Peter Laanen speak about recent developments...

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 21:00:00 -0700

Liz and Bo Peter Laanen speak about recent developments concerning Occupy Berkeley.

Ezra Rapport, Executive Director of the Association of Bay Area...

Thu, 18 Aug 2011 21:00:00 -0700

Ezra Rapport, Executive Director of the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG), discusses the Sustainable Communities Strategy and describes how planning takes place at a regional level.

Lois Uttley, Co-Founder of Raising Women’s Voices,...

Thu, 28 Jul 2011 21:00:00 -0700

Lois Uttley, Co-Founder of Raising Women’s Voices, discusses the recent recommendation by the Institute of Medicine that contraceptives by covered by health plans.

David Snyder of the Berkeley Public Library Foundation speaks...

Thu, 12 May 2011 21:00:00 -0700

David Snyder of the Berkeley Public Library Foundation speaks about the effort to renovate Berkeley’s branch libraries.

Meric Long of The Dodos talks about what influences his...

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 21:00:00 -0800

Meric Long of The Dodos talks about what influences his song-writing process, the band’s new line-up and the making of the new album No Color.

Lance Knobel, co-founder of Berkeleyside, discusses the progress...

Thu, 03 Mar 2011 21:00:00 -0800

Lance Knobel, co-founder of Berkeleyside, discusses the progress of the site, the state of the news industry and gives the score of Berkeleyside’s 2010 Resolutions.

Berkeley Chamber of Commerce CEOs Polly Armstrong and John...

Thu, 24 Feb 2011 21:00:00 -0800

Berkeley Chamber of Commerce CEOs Polly Armstrong and John DeClercq discuss their shared position, the local business climate and current projects in West Berkeley and Downtown, including the Berkeley Startup Cluster. [Length: 25:34]

KUSF Music Director Irwin Swirnoff discusses the recent...

Thu, 20 Jan 2011 21:00:00 -0800

KUSF Music Director Irwin Swirnoff discusses the recent announcement by USF that the current KUSF will be moving to an online-only format and that the call letters 90.3 will be used by a Southern California non-commercial classical station. [Length: 25:45]

State Senator Loni Hancock discusses California state...

Thu, 21 Oct 2010 21:30:00 -0700

State Senator Loni Hancock discusses California state propositions on the ballot November 2, 2010, including the importance of Proposition 25.

Post-Election Wrap Up Roundtable Hosts Lars Skjerping, Lee...

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 21:00:00 -0700

Post-Election Wrap Up Roundtable

Hosts Lars Skjerping, Lee Cressey and Loretta Gaines discuss the week’s California primary election.

California Propositions on June 8th Ballot Tuesday, June 8,...

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 21:00:00 -0700

California Propositions on June 8th Ballot

Tuesday, June 8, 2010 is election day. We discuss the five California state propositions. These are:

Prop 13: Limits taxes on Seismic Retrofitting

Prop 14: Elections. Increases right to participate in primary elections. Top two Vote getters from the June primary will face off in the November general election.

Prop 15: California Fair Elections. Public Funding for Candidates for Secretary of State. Candidates will be able finance their campaign with public funds. Private entities cannot “buy” a candidate. Leverages fees on lobbyists.

Prop 16: 2/3rds Voter Approval before local governments can provide electricity from local sources…instead of PG&E. Campaign solely funded by PG&E.

Prop 17: Auto Insurance companies base their prices on a drivers history of insurance coverage…not their history of driver safety. Paid for by Mercury auto insurance.

Soapbox Derby talks about the impacts each of these props will have on our state, as well as who is funding it. Prop 16 & 17 are funded by corporations and have outspent the opposition by 100 to 1 (Prop 16) and 10 to 1 (Prop 17).

Voter Information Links:
Secretary of State - http://voterguide.sos.ca.gov/propositions/
Ballotpedia - http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/California_2010_ballot_propositions
League of Womens Voters - http://www.cavotes.org/vote/ballot-measures
Article on Props 16 & 17 - http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-business-props-20100605,0,7858605.story

Earth Day with Shana Lazerow, Staff Attorney for Communities for...

Thu, 22 Apr 2010 22:00:00 -0700

Earth Day with Shana Lazerow, Staff Attorney for Communities for a Better Environment (CBE)

The first earth day was on April 22, 1970. It was spearheaded by Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin, who in 1963, was troubled that the environment was a non-issue in the politics of the country. Seven years later after much political wrangling, Earth Day was unveiled to an American populace that finally had a forum to express its concern about what was happening to the land, rivers, lakes, and air.

Today, climate change has become a looming threat to the world at large. Industrialized nations tried to tackle this issue at the Climate talks in Copenhagen last December, with no real success. In response, the Peoples Climate Summit is taking place in Cochabamba, Bolivia, as a response to the failure of the Copenhagen talks.

It is disproportionately the nations that have contributed the least amount of climate damage, that have suffered the worst. This can also be mirrored on a local scale as our working-class communities here in the bay area, tend to suffer the most environmental damage, such as the neighborhoods who loom beneath the spector of the Chevron refinery in Richmond.

Tonight we will be talking with Shana Lazerow who is the staff attorney for Oakland based organization, Communities for a Better Environment. Their mission is to achieve environmental health and justice by building grassroots power in and with communities of color and working-class communities. There organization is putting on an event this Saturday called, “Love Yo Mama Earth Day in East Oakland.” The theme this year: “Green is Good for the Hood.”

Guest: Shana Lazerow, Staff Attorney, Communities for a Better Environment (CBE)

“East Oakland suffers alot more of the environmental impacts of the Bay Area than the Bay Area as a whole or even Alameda County as a whole.” - Lazerow

“This [event] is a celebration; people know they are suffering from the pollution that goes on. We want people to come together to feel empowered with and in their community, to really make a change.” - Lazerow

Links:
Communities for a Better Environment - http://www.cbecal.org

2nd Segment:
We also talked with Robbie Clarke, of the Oakland-based organization, Just Cause. They are organizing a rally/protest in the SF Financial District to hold Wells Fargo accountable. The demands are to create jobs; keep families in their homes; rebuild our neighborhoods; stop predatory lending and reclaim our democracy.

Links:
Just Cause - http://www.cjcc.org

Soapbox Derby is Produced by: Jesse Townley, Lars Skjerping, Marshall Stax
Engineer: Lee Cressey
Host: Loretta Gaines, Lee Cressey
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